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Warning: the post below is likely to make you feel ancient. Like, fossil ancient. Read on at your own risk of burying hopes to stay a kid forever. Let this be a farewell to our inner Kevin McCallisters, since the last time we were home alone was two kids, a mortgage, and an infinite amount of Zoom meetings ago.

And my fellow millennials, things like burning CDs and MTV’s Pimp My Ride were things we proudly grew up with. But these days, Gen Zs clearly don’t know what floppy disks are for, or what hanging up the phone actually refers to… damn, everyone, are we really closer to boomers than we’d ever like to be?

In case you feel nostalgic towards more stuff from the millennial-approved childhood, make sure to check out our previous posts here and here.

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Andrew Gibb
Community Member
5 years ago

the only thing that could be paused was a VHS or Betamax video and then you ran the risk of the tape snapping.

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    varwenea
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    That's a popular joke.

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    Tolga ÜSTÜN
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    A file takes 17 hours to download is sure an "home work" file... A young mind's dreams collapsed at %96 percent that day!

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    James016
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    5 years ago

    *cries internally*

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    Foxxy (The Original)
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    Never even thought of it that way.

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    Bardhi's Dad
    Community Member
    5 years ago (edited)

    Loooool

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    Foxxy (The Original)
    Community Member
    5 years ago (edited)

    I used to love that show but now I see it and cringe. The acting is soooo bad.

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    CowboyHank
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    I remember having to sit next to the radio with a blank tape and just listen. Hopefully the DJ would play your request soon so you could put together the perfect mix tape. And you were screwed if you had to go to the bathroom. You'd sometimes miss the whole first verse but you would still record it because you didn't want to wait a whole other day for it to come back around.

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    Andrew Gibb
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    an under rated Brad Pitt film

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    Eliza Schuyler
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    5 years ago (edited)

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    What’s MySpace? Edit: ok thanks for your answers now it makes sense

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    Andrew Gibb
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    we had these in school. OHP

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    Sum Guy
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    Let's be honest, the cassette walkman was far superior than the disk version of it

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    Bill
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    5 years ago

    # used to mean pound sign. Gives "#metoo" a different meaning

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    Andrew Gibb
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    these tend to go wrong a lot less than electric ones

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    Love unicorns
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    5 years ago

    That is obviously a cookie warmer, duh!

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    troufaki13
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    I always checked who borrowed it before me! :)

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    varwenea
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    I know the original project owner of this from Apple. He will be disappointed to learn what a relic he's become. 😂

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    troufaki13
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    I still use landline :/

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    Foxxy (The Original)
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    Isn't MTV still a thing?

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    Andrew Gibb
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    there is a tape tool kit- a pencil and a lot of patience

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    Foxxy (The Original)
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    Good old internet Explorer NOT. Is it even around still.?

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    Andrew Gibb
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    these needed carefully placing on a completely level surface and not moved a mm whilst playing. As portable as water in a sieve.

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    Tolga ÜSTÜN
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    Works for me and the people who watches this video boy... Just keep trying...

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    Dieonika
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    Why would you even think a 4 year old would know what this was? And I don't get why she thinks it's soap, does she mean soap dispenser?

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    Monday
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    At least there used to be fewer ads 15-20 years ago. You'd just have that one ad break in the middle of whatever cartoon you were watching to run to the bathroom/grab a snack in.

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    troufaki13
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    And then the Kardashians took over :(

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    Arctic Fox Lover
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    Is it really that hard to figure out? Lolol

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    qwerty
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    Unrelated, but I think the next series should have Harriet Tubman.

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    elStiJneriNO
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    given that hippies are from the 60's and the first gen Z was born 95-ish. it's already quite a substantial gap

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    chi-wei shen
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    5 years ago

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    I also had no idea who Akon was until I Googled him. Does this mean I'm ancient?

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